Siluridae


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Related to Siluridae: Silurus, sheatfish
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Noun1.Siluridae - Old World catfishes
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Siluriformes, Siluriformes - an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
silurid, silurid fish - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
genus Silurus, Silurus - type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes
genus Malopterurus, Malopterurus - electric catfish
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silagindae 2% soleidae 2% Synbranchidae 2% Mastacembelidae 2% Belonidae 2% Channidae 2% Cyprinidae 21% Siluridae 4% Schilbeidae 9% Pangasidae 2% Bagridae 7% Sisoridae 7% Ariidae 4% Clupeidae 2% Ergraulidae 2% Notopteridae 4% Polynemidae 2% Mugilidae 4% Anabantidas 2% Osphronemidae 4% Ambassidae 4% Nandidae 4% Gobiidaeu 11% Note: Table made from pie chart.
truncatus (h = 0.9765, [pi] = 0.003179) based on the cyt b mtDNA sequences are similar to other fish species of the family Siluridae. For example, butter catfish, Ompok bimaculatus, in India (h = 0.8270, [pi] = 0.00391) [19] and Trichomycterus areolatus from Chile [8].
The survival rate recorded in this study, maintaining spermatozoa motility at good values after cooling seems to be inherent to other Siluridae species, such as Clarias gariepinus studied by Mansour et al.